Valerie and I met in 2004 courtesy of the online dating site, Yahoo! Personals. Don’t laugh; it was before Plenty of Fish and OkCupid’s time!

We went on one date, and then didn’t see each other for over ten years. We each endured our share of heartache during that time. When we reunited, I had just come out of a failed marriage, and Valerie had just come out of a failed relationship.

It took a long time to finally find each other – a lifetime in fact. But we both agree, it was worth it.

And that’s what this song, “Another Lifetime” is about. It’s about our unique journey to love and happiness, culminating in our union in holy matrimony.

Shortly after we were engaged, Valerie floated the idea of us writing a song together. I was both excited and terrified. We both had written songs before, but we had never written a song together. And I had never written a song “on demand”, so I didn’t know how that would work out either.

But we decided to go for it anyway and quickly the song began to take shape. We collaborated with Jeffrey Allen Spence and R. B. Blackstone of GratitudeRoad Studios, to hammer out the musical arrangement and get the song recorded. The video was expertly done by Sixto Serrano and Nicole Silveira of Serrano Films, and contains actual footage from our wedding day and our studio recording session.